13th June, 2008

I have kept rather quiet about this, but I'm on my way out to Asia next week. Packed programme of meetings in Shanghai, Nanchang, Shenzhen and Hong Kong before heading off to Vietnam for a couple of days. What is wrong with me? Things were going swimmingly in Ho Chi Minh until word got around that I was heading out there and then all hell broke loose. It's Thailand all over again. I am bag carrying for a client, of course, who is a serious and focused professional at a highly successful Edinburgh investment management firm, but in his younger days....well you can just read email exchange with my brother who is an auld friend...


-----Original Message-----
From: David Sandison, CLSA
To: Jamie Sandison

Sent: Tue Jun 10 07:56:50 2008
Subject: Yo!

Keep forgetting to tell you I am off to China and then Vietnam on Saturday with XXXXXXX (name protected for reasons of client confidentiality).





Wow - have fun. If he starts throwing food (and this might include chocolate mousse) in the air and catching it in his mouth, you'll know you're in trouble.

Jamie Sandison

Sent by BlackBerry



Going to be fun!



As I am will be away next week you might allow me to prattle on a bit more today. When I was at prep school I used to pride myself on the fact that I knew what every single one of the other 109 pupils fathers worked as. You will appreciate that it was a long time ago but, honestly, I don't think there was a single "working" mother. Ridiculous. So that was me aged 12-13 yrs old. Last night I got a text message from Hen aged 15 3/4 . "Wot do u do for work? xxxx" she asked. I am still trying to decide whether this says more about me than her.



What else? Well on the French exchange student front....suffice to say we decided not to put Jimmy on the bus to Paris this morning. Diplomatic rationale is that she is exhausted after her Common Entrance efforts, which, remarkably, given the footsteps she is following in, resulted in her being offered a place at Rugby.